402 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
CARYOPHYLLACE 
Dianthus superbus L. Splendid Pink. 
‘A much reduced form of this plant.’ 
In the British Museum is an example of this plant which exceeds 15 
inches in height. On Kolguev I found none over 8 inches, and this in 
long grass. Its flower is loose and straggling, and at the first glance 
from the marked ciliate petals, looks more like a ‘ragged robin’ 
(Lychnis Flos-cucult) than a pink. In Kolguev I only found it in the 
Gobista mountains on August 26. 
Wahlbergella angustiflora Rupr. 
Ruprecht separated this Kolguev form from the Zychnis apetela of 
Vahl—of which the type from Greenland is figured in Flora Danica, vol. 
13—2173—on the ground that is was more nearly allied to Fries’ Wahiber- 
gella of Finmarck. The specific name angustiflora points one difference, 
and the calyx also is more tubular, less bladder-like than the Greenland 
form. I found it first on July 12 at Scharok, where it was common on 
the sand ridge. A plant brought from Novaya Zemblya by Admiral 
Markham in 1789 is intermediate between the two forms, while in 
specimens brought from Spitzbergen by Col. H. W. Feilden (1894), the 
calyx is at least as bladder-like as in the Greenland form. 
Stellaria Edwardsii R. Br. 
Hooker and Hartmann unite this to S. dongipes. Goldie. 
This little starwort flourished on the high ground wherever there was 
enough grass to support it. 
S. humifusa Rottb. 
It commonly grew at Scharok in July, in damp hollows where water 
soaked down from the clay level. 
Cerastium alpinum L. 
This was one of the latest plants in flower on Kolguev. I found it 
always on dry sandy places, never in wet situations, where it is said 
